DC Rebirth: Week One

Well, DC put out the first four Rebirth titles this week (after last week's single issue). This week had Batman Rebirth, Superman Rebirth, Green Arrow Rebirth, and Green Lanterns Rebirth.
These are essentially a way to bridge the old and new continuities, and kind of act as an "issue zero", to set up the basic status quo before issue 1.

Batman Rebirth
Batman Rebirth is nominally a way of bridging the gap between the old and new continuity, but of the four issues this week, it was the least interesting one. The only thing of note here is that Duke from We Are Robin will be Batman's new sidekick - but not called Robin. And he has a new outfit which I'm not really very sold on. Beyond that... pretty much nothing happened except a confusing plot involving calendar man and the seasons.

Superman Rebirth
While more interesting than Batman, Superman was the least memorable. It's the only one of these four which I had to flick through again to remind myself what happened. Beard-Superman, whose exact origin I can't really remember... I think he's pre-new 52 superman who got stuck here during Convergence? Anyway, he has this idea that because he got resurrected after Death of Superman, obviously this other Superman will come back too. Then he eventually realises that he won't, and decides that the world needs a Superman. Basically a way to bridge the two continuities, but the first issues of the new series are the real tests.

Green Arrow Rebirth
This issue was pretty much dedicated to introducing Green Arrow and Black Canary. A well-established couple pre-Flashpoint, then never met during New 52. It was a pretty good issue, with a standalone mini mystery, but no real talking points.

Green Lanterns Rebirth
This was probably my favourite of the four. By the end of the New 52, there were SIX Green Lanterns from Earth. The four from before New 52 - Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner; The new one added during New 52, Simon Baz... who did literally nothing since he was created, and Jessica Cruz, from the Forever Evil storyline and beyond. Anyway, the situation is that the original 4 are out doing actual lantern stuff in space, and the new two will be actually guarding earth. In this issue, Hal Jordan gives Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz a bit of a crash course in training, and lets them know they have to work together better. Hopefully this means Green Lantern comics will become more back to basics, rather than the Space Opera stuff of recent years!